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J PATTERSON EARMARK FOR STOCK. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3. 19m.

Patented Oct. 14, 1919.

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EARMARK FOR STOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

7 Application filed June 3, 1918. Serial No. 237,992.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lmown that I, JOHN PATTERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stearns, in the county of Lewis and Clark and State of Montana, have invented a new and useful Earmark for Stock, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of this invention is an ear mark for stock, intended to be affixed to the ears of stock to indicate their ownership.

7 Another object of the invention is the provisim of an ear mark in which copper is use A further object of the invention is the provision of an ear mark which will have an anti-toxic effect upon the stock.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed with out departing from the spirit of the invention.

A. practical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompany drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of the ear mark, shown applied to the ear of an animal;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view in front eleva tion of the mark;

Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation of the same;

Fig. 4 is a view in rear elevation;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the mark in opened position;

Fig. 6 is a view in front elevation of a modification of the device, shown in applied position;

Fig. 7 is a rear elevation of the same.

Referring to the drawing by numerals of reference In carrying out the invention there is provided a strip of metal 1, whicli may be galvanized iron or other suitable metal or material, and this strip is apertured, as indicated by the numeral 2, to receive a copper wire 3. The ends of the wire 8 project beyond the ends of the strip 1 and are bent, as indicated by the numeral 4 for interengagement when the device is in place in the ear of an animal.

In use, the ear of the animal is slit, and

one end of the wire 3 and strip 1 is passed through the slit and bent down against the back of the ear. The other end of the wire and the strip is bent around the edge of the ear and against the back of the ear, and the bent ends of the wire interengaged to hold the mark in place.

The copper, passing through the ear of the animal, will prevent black-leg, cholera, and other diseases of stock.

In the modification shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the strip 1 is made of copper or other material having a proper anti-toxic efiect,

and is clamped in place on the ear of an animal in the usual and well lnaown manner hereinbefore described. I Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and sought by Letters Patent, is I V 7 In an ear mark for stock, a strip of flexible metal having spaced pairs of apertures arranged adjacent the upper edge thereof, a securing wire passing through the apertures said wire having a hook on one end thereof,

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and an eye on the opposite end thereof, said strip of metal, and intermediate portions of the wire, adapted to be simultaneously bent to embrace aportion of the ear of the animal towhich the device is applied.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afl'ixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN PAT ERsoN.

Witnesses:

LUTHER T. HAUBERG, E. M. MCGRATH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. r 

